[Margaret Pilkington]

Well Ken, there are other losers in this too.......the revenue which would be forthcoming from a successful market hall would be lost, and the deaf councillors who have flown in the face of considered and knowledgable opinion, will look totally daft for not recognising what is staring them in the mush.

It is not too late to save the place....but it would take a climbdown from the uncompromising stance of the councillors railroading this through.
Why don't they make it optional for the traders to open if they feel that trade will stand it? Still, that is a simple solution, and I don't reckon they are into looking at the simplest ideas.